Handbook of the Indians of California
Handbook of the Indians of California

Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13: 0486233685

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A major ethnographic work by a distinguished anthropologist contains detailed information on the social structures, homes, foods, crafts, religious beliefs, and folkways of California's diverse tribes

Tailholt Tales
Tailholt Tales

Author: Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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History of the Yokuts Indians of the central valley of California, learned from a white man who was raised by them.

Legends of the Yosemite Miwok
Legends of the Yosemite Miwok

Author: Frank R. LaPena

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597140737

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Contains illustrated retellings of eighteen legends of the Native American people of the Yosemite area of California.

Origin of the Earth and Moon
Origin of the Earth and Moon

Author: Shirley Silver

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780816521395

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This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Handbook of Indians of Canada
Handbook of Indians of Canada

Author: Frederick Webb Hodge

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13:

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A dictionary, an encyclopedia, an enthnographic overview of Native tribes and their social life and customs, arts, people, villages, languages, and topics of all kinds. Includes a summary of treaties signed ; descriptions and location of Indian [Native, Aboriginal, First Nations] tribes and locations, explanation of terminology, etc. "Synonymy" section includes various spellings of Indian names, tribes and people, etc.

Handbook of American Indian Languages
Handbook of American Indian Languages

Author: Franz Boas

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 9781377147338

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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

Author: Raymond Hickey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 1687

ISBN-13: 1316839451

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Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.